[12] Alternative design for ground floor 'No 2'

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  - Bagden Lodge, Savernake Forest, Wiltshire: unexecuted designs for alterations and additions, 1795 (15)

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Reference number

SM 6/2/10

Purpose

[12] Alternative design for ground floor 'No 2'

Aspect

Ground floor plan

Scale

bar scale of 1/7 inch to 1 foot

Inscribed

Bagden House with the proposed alterations, The Earl of Ailesbury, Plan of the Ground Floorr, rooms labelled: The / Drawing Room, The / Library, The Hall, The / Breakfast Room, The / Eating Room, Principal / Staircase, The / Servants Hall, Housekeeper's Room, Water / Closet, Court, Lord Bruce's / Dressing Room, Landry (sic), Butler, Washouse, Coals, Kitchen and Office Court and dimensions given

Signed and dated

June 1795

Medium and dimensions

Pen, black and red washes on wove paper with two fold marks (520 x 660)

Hand

Soane Office

Notes

The design is less compact than in previous drawings so that the front is now five rooms (11 bays) wide with the drawing room, library, hall, breakfast and eating rooms en filade. The breakfast room is additional to the rooms shown in previous designs and the stair is on the left-hand side and not in the centre, as in earlier designs. This 'No.2' design would have been more expensive than the 'No.1' design.

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